Telegram-herald., 1887-01-29
A RATIOk Or COWARDS
Senator ingalls, Talks Plainly
OF Canadian Annexation.
He flg0as | CONTINENTAL REPUBLIC.
Scores the Unitsd States Tor its lack
q Nerve ~ Treating English In
suits ard Taxes a Determined
Stand Against Great
Britain.

WA-BseroS. Jan 2s.-W. T. Curtis OF
the Chlcss3 Secs. had al interview with
Seaalor la-ails tnis afternoon, Of which the
f.i-oslus s 80 extract. Senator Ingalls,
declares mse.f With bis characteristic EN-
pe ssis a. ia isFoI o. the annexation o,Can-
ada aud nol only Canada. bnl the entire
Crn.rai American States. lie carved = word
te eKp-es. lls doctrine and il 49, A Con-
finen.al kepublc Ile unanimity of the
assault up0n hlm oy the English and Ca
madam papers since bis speech on the n.h-
eres resolution Eouii seem 20 indicate that
the blows he stfucA aerc lelt anu We're
good deal more tLan dlstlrn auee OF the
air. That lc struck pOpnlAr chord ia
tlis country IS shown by Tie deiuge oI le,-
ters thar So; in upon him tle day after his
speecl was delivered. and suh continues
aith increasing numbers. lie has received
q good many from Canada, a well a. from
ciu1ens Of the United states and thew are
al anonymous. yt4pesatiye. vindictive and
ius0itnt To the last oes rec. The letters re
ceigei from ttis country have come from
ev.FV state thai could send mail So Tar as
Washington. since the debate. aud are al
cDugratl.4l0ry. enthusiastic and grateiGL
/ asked the senator % show me some
0i tLe letters. and pointing 20 a great
Pile ou his desk be said / WAS az liberty -
help myself ani after some urging permit
ted me . make copies o. icw samples
without sivi.g the names. | asked hin n
ne AsI resd the attacks upon himself ia the
English snl Canadian papers. My atten-
t.0n has been called 20 Them. he replied
The tone % tie editorials in the leading
Z London journals is a further illustration OF
the temper of England and the English
people toward America ana our institutions.
The attempt 20 divert the issue from The
gravity oi the accusation TO the insignit-
csnce OF the accuser. The real question Is
/ not Whefher Mr.. Iu-a.ls IS obscure,
bu. whether his silesations are true
/ or false. No superalhous illusions
I'D me or my state state can detract attention
I from the real principles IN controversy.
I We have been 20 submissive. 50 i0rDaarng
7 IN the Iast that the w0.lI i .Oming 10 be
/ ieve IS a nation o. cowards- There has
/ been such TRANSMISSION on The dry rot Ot
! Aus'o mania into our social system, sue h
/ Al Adoption Of the single eye glass and the
| 'aW the iarrOn and the rainent OF Eng
land. so much hopdOoile and whipsy labub,
tea cDstard and nonsense about kindred
! blood and the land of Shakespeare and Nil
! ton that there has been a temporary aber-
rali0u of The intellect and n suspension Of
: self re. pect on the part OF the American
I people who FORGET fhs. England is the only
I enemy we have on the face OF ne earth.
10 is time that the American people
awake o. tie fact that the Statesmenship OF
The nineteenth ceuIury requires the unitci-
/ alton OF this continent under one
| Homogeneous government from the frozen
/ sea 10 the Inter oceAniC Canal Wherever
IL may be built that canal should be Our
/ Southern boundary Nv dream and
/ believe the settled convention of The Amer
! can people is a continental republic That